They look pretty cool. That break was a lucky accident apparently, it looks like it was intentional. I enjoy making stuff as well, but it's usually small electronic thingamajigs and those don't have much in terms of good looks. I also have a lot of plans for which I don't yet have the tools, knowledge or time to even start them. Anyhow, looking through my files I found photos of a model railway layout module I made last year. It's not quite finished yet, a lot of small details (more vegetation, signs and such) are missing still and the grass could use a little more work. What you see was done in about a month and then the project halted due to university stuff.

Spoiler:

I am quite proud ot the trackwork, this was my first attempt at making a track bed.

I messed up the river part by adding too much paint to the resin, making it way to green in my opinion.

somitomi wrote:They look pretty cool. That break was a lucky accident apparently, it looks like it was intentional.

Thanks.

I enjoy making stuff as well, but it's usually small electronic thingamajigs and those don't have much in terms of good looks. I also have a lot of plans for which I don't yet have the tools, knowledge or time to even start them. Anyhow, looking through my files I found photos of a model railway layout module I made last year. It's not quite finished yet, a lot of small details (more vegetation, signs and such) are missing still and the grass could use a little more work. What you see was done in about a month and then the project halted due to university stuff.

I like the way the ploughed fields look beside the track. Very impressive overall.

somitomi wrote:They look pretty cool. That break was a lucky accident apparently, it looks like it was intentional. I enjoy making stuff as well, but it's usually small electronic thingamajigs and those don't have much in terms of good looks. I also have a lot of plans for which I don't yet have the tools, knowledge or time to even start them. Anyhow, looking through my files I found photos of a model railway layout module I made last year. It's not quite finished yet, a lot of small details (more vegetation, signs and such) are missing still and the grass could use a little more work. What you see was done in about a month and then the project halted due to university stuff.

Spoiler:

IMG_0283 (Custom).JPGI am quite proud ot the trackwork, this was my first attempt at making a track bed.IMG_0282 (Custom).JPGIMG_0280 (Custom).JPGIMG_0279 (Custom).JPGI messed up the river part by adding too much paint to the resin, making it way to green in my opinion.

plytho wrote:I like the way the ploughed fields look beside the track. Very impressive overall.

djangochained wrote:I like it. pretty well done:)

Thank you both. I might have something more to post here later, if repainting model railway cars counts as "making something". I decided to buy an airbrush, because the list of projects waiting because I can't paint them got long enough to justify it.

It's an LED cube based on intructions found here: link.I built it with a friend a couple of years ago. It's a bit banged up and a couple of connections need resoldering but other than that it still works fine.As you can see we connected a NES controller, that's because we programmed a 3D version of snake to run on the cube.

I am a retired engineer tool maker and have been looking for this kind of thread to share my ideas and pictures of what I have made.Can someone advise if one needs to have a certain amount of posts before you can show them?.

I am a retired engineer tool maker and have been looking for this kind of thread to share my ideas and pictures of what I have made.Can someone advise if one needs to have a certain amount of posts before you can show them?.

Rules thread. Five posts.

heuristically_alone wrote:I want to write a DnD campaign and play it by myself and DM it myself.

heuristically_alone wrote:I have been informed that this is called writing a book.

I am a retired engineer tool maker and have been looking for this kind of thread to share my ideas and pictures of what I have made.Can someone advise if one needs to have a certain amount of posts before you can show them?.

Here is something I made several years ago after my leather and shoemakers course.

An adjustable leather strap cutter, it has a cam operated clamp for fast adjustment between widths of 12 to 80 millimeter. The handle I turned from burr hazel with a hand rolled Sterling ferrule. The blade was made from a section of recycled industrial hacksaw blade.

She has a hold down roller which runs across the entire width of cut itself adjustable from zero to 6.00 mm thick. Mainly brass with an odd piece of PB102 Bronze.

Being keen gardeners for a decade or so now, here are a couple of wooden objects I made last year for our allotment. An Amish style wheelbarrow made from recycled timbers, including the proper wooden wheel and removeable sides so it can be used as a flat bogie.

And as we call them here in Yorkshire, A Settle, or garden chair made from birch plywood sides cut by jigsaw and standard 50 X 25 mm roofing lathes which have had their upper edges rounded over to prevent knifing.

While everyone was watching Zulu on the box for the umpteenth time this new year holidays I ventured into the workshop to knock together this my own version of an artificial inseminating apparatus from queen honey bees.

It's loosely based on the original Laidlaw system of American fame with a few of my own ideas thrown into the throng.

It has also a built in hydraulic syringe that I made to do the insertion stage.

It works very well indeed, there are also a few short videos of the delicate operational stages on YouTube if anyone here is a beekeeper.

I saved well over 3k by making this myself.

If anyone is interested in can add links to the whole global step by step building program.

Please don't multi-post when one one will do it. Also, removing the weird postimage referral links while at it. -Moderator

It started from a bit cut from the end of some magnetic tape I've bought for my reel-to-reel. I kept it around without any discernible use in mind and then gradually came up with making a cassette shape out of magnetic tape. The tape turned out to be too short for the entire outline despite my calculations and casting it in resin didn't quite go smoothly but it turned out all right I guess.